Canadian Society for Italian Studies - 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 11-13 MAY, 2018 - Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
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OFFICERS
Canadian Society for Italian Studies
2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
11-13 MAY, 2018
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Social Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
CONFERENCE
The Canadian Society for Italian Studies
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
11-13 May 2018
The University of Ottawa
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Franco La Cecla, anthropologist and architect
Gabriele Dadati, writer and editor
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario
Graduate and Undergraduate Students:
Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto
Rebecca Good, University of Ottawa
Benedetta Lamanna, University of Toronto
Ina Dhelpra, University of Western Ontario
Iris Dhelpra, University of Western Ontario
Marcella Puggioni, University of Western Ontario
Alicia Sherret, University of Western Ontario
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE SOCIETY WISHES TO THANK
The University of Ottawa
The Canadian Italian Business and Professional
Association of Ottawa (CIBPA)
Il Comitato degli Italiani all’Estero Ottawa
(COMITES)
The National Congress of Italian Canadians –
National Capital District (NCIC)
The League of Canadian Poets
for their sponsorship and continuous support.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Keynote speakers
FRANCO LA CECLA
ANTHROPOLOGIST, ARCHITECT,
CULTURAL CRITIC
Keynote address:
Saturday, 12 May 2018
(11:00 am–12:15 pm)
Title: Scrittura di viaggio: com'è cambiata a seguito delle
nuove tecnologie.
GABRIELE DADATI
WRITER AND EDITOR
Keynote address:
Friday, 11 May 2018
(4:30–6:00 pm)
Title: Antonio Canova e le donne di Napoleone. Da Letizia
Ramolino a Paolina Borghese, da Giuseppina Beauharnais a
Maria Luisa d'Austria.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Pre-conference reading
Thursday, 10 May 2018 (7:00 pm)
Reading by Italian-Canadian Authors: Concetta
Principe, Antony Di Nardo and Luciano Iacobelli
Gala dinner
INDUSTRIA BRASSERIE
Saturday, 12 May 2018
6:30 pm: Cocktails (optional, cash bar)
7:00 pm: Gala dinner
Landsdowne, 225 Marché Way, Unit 107,
Ottawa K1S 5H6
Phone number: +1 (613) 695-1200
Website: http://industriapizzeria.com
5SPECIAL EVENTS
TULIP FESTIVAL TOUR
Friday, 11 May 2018 (10:00 – 10:30 am)
Explore the tulip gardens and enjoy the vibrant
surroundings. Motor coaches disembark at a meet
and greet tent on Carling Ave near the pavilion.
TOUR OF THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Friday, 11 May 2018 (2:00 pm)
Guided visit to some of the Italian-
Canadian objects preserved in the
national collection of the Canadian
Museum of History.
TOUR OF PARLIAMENT
(CENTRAL BLOCK)
Saturday, 12 May 2018 (10:05 am)
A free tour of Parliament.
This tour is about 20-50 minutes,
depending upon parliamentary activity.
6SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Thursday, May 10 2018: Reading of Italian-Canadian
Authors
Friday, May 11 Saturday, May 12 Sunday, May 13
9-9:30 am: 9-10:30 am: 9-10:30 am:
Opening Remarks Sessions 14-17 Sessions 26-29
10 am: 10:05 am:
Tulip Tour Tour of Parliament
9:30-11 am:
Sessions 1-4
11:30 am-1 pm: 11 am-12:15 pm: 11 am-12:30 pm:
Sessions 5-8 Franco La Cecla’s Annual General
keynote address Meeting
2 pm: 2-3:30 pm: 2-3:30 pm:
Canadian Museum Sessions 18-21 Sessions 30-33
of History Tour
2:30-4 pm:
Sessions 9-13
4:30-6 pm: 4-5:30 pm:
Gabriele Dadati’s Sessions 22-25
keynote address
7 pm:
Gala dinner at
Industria
Brasserie
7WIRELESS AND SECURITY
AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT
Each room is equipped with a data projector, screen,
speakers and podium with a computer; delegates shall use
their USB key.
WIRELESS ACCESS
Delegates may use University of Ottawa’s complimentary
wireless network:
Microsoft Windows Users: right click the Wireless Network
Connection icon in the Windows System Tray and choose
View Available Wireless Connections; look for the SSID
guOttawa and double click; the status will change to
connected; there is no need for login or password and there
is no security or encryption on the wireless.
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corner of the menu bar; select guOttawa from the list; there
is no need for login or password and there is no security or
encryption on the wireless.
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bar; click on Wifi Not Connected and the menu will expand;
click Select Network; click on guOttawa; there is no need for
login or password and there is no security or encryption on
the wireless.
SECURITY
In case of an emergency, delegates can contact Protection
Services
From a campus phone: 5411
From a personal phone: (613) 562-5411
Non-emergency: 613-562-5499
8PROGRAM 9
Thursday, May 10 2018
THURSDAY, MAY 10 2018
7:00 pm
Pre-conference Event: FSS Room 2005 – Faculty of
Social Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Reading of Italian-Canadian Authors: Antony Di
Nardo, Luciano Iacobelli and Concetta Principe
Organizer: Francesco Loriggio (Carleton University)
co-sponsored by:
the Canadian Society for Italian Studies;
the League of Canadian Poets;
and in collaboration with:
the Dante Alighieri Society (Ottawa);
the National Congress of Italian-Canadians (National
Capital District)
The event is open to the public; free admission.
10Friday, May 11 2018
FRIDAY, MAY 11 2018
Registration 8:30 am – 1:00 pm; 2:30 – 4:30 pm
8:30 – 9:00 am: BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:30 am
Opening Remarks: FSS Room 1006 – Faculty of Social
Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Dr. Brian Ray, Vice-Dean of Research, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ottawa
Dr. Trina Costantini-Powell, President, National
Congress of Italian Canadians
Dr. David Mollica, Secretary, Comitato degli Italiani
all’Estero Ottawa
10:00 am: Tulip Tour (information on page 35)
9:30 – 11:00 am
Session 1: FSS Room 6004 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Intersections of Philosophy and Politics in Italian
Philosophical Thought I
Organizers: Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College
at University of Western Ontario) and Silvia Benso
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
Chair: Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at
University of Western Ontario)
Silvia Benso (Rochester Institute of Technology):
Resisting Reality: Vattimo’s Ontology of Actuality as a
Political Act.
11Friday, May 11 2018
Andrew Woods (University of Western Ontario):
Post-2008 Post-Autonomism.
Claudio Clivio (Concordia University): Biopotere e
tecnica: paradigmi antitetici?
Session 2: FSS Room 1030 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
(Re)reading Calvino Today I
Organizer: Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario)
Elio Attilio Baldi (University of Amsterdam): The
history of science, art, objectivity and perception in
and around Palomar.
Andrea Dini (Montclair State University):
Visualizzare l’orgasmo: Calvino e l’eros di “Come era
grande il mare” (1948).
Jaime R. Brenes Reyes (University of Western
Ontario): Fantastic Combinations and Machinations:
“La notte dei numeri.”
Session 3: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Italian Dialects
Organizer: Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano (York
University)
Chair: Elena Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole
Campus)
Carlo Coen (York University): Una tempesta
napoletana in Sardegna: la traduzione di The
Tempest di Eduardo De Filippo e il film La stoffa dei
sogni di Gianfranco Cabiddu.
Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano (York University):
Il plurilinguismo nelle opere di Antonio Angelone.
12Friday, May 11 2018
Antonio Petrossi (Istituto Superiore per la
Conservazione ed il Restauro (ISCR) Napoli):
Variabilità dialettale intracomunale: il caso di
Agerola (Monti della Costa d’Amalfi).
Massimo Vedovelli (Università per Stranieri di
Siena): Lingua e dialetto in Italia oggi: il contesto
televisivo.
Session 4: FSS Room 1006 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Roundtable: Study Tour Abroad: Issues,
Challenges and Rewards
Organizer: Paola Basile (Lake Erie College)
Chair: Cristina Caracchini (University of Western
Ontario)
Teresa Lobalsamo (University of Toronto
Mississauga): High Impact Practices in Italian Studies.
Luisa Canuto (The University of British Columbia):
UBC Study in Italy Program.
Paola Basile (Lake Erie College): Organizing &
leading study-tours in Italy: Challenges, Benefits and
Rewards.
Ernesto Virgulti (Brock University): Study Abroad
Options for Small Italian Programs.
11:00 – 11:30 am: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Session 5: FSS Room 6004 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
13Friday, May 11 2018
Thinking Roberto Esposito Beyond the
Biopolitical Paradigm II
Organizers: Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College
at University of Western Ontario) and Silvia Benso
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
Chair: Silvia Benso (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at
University of Western Ontario): Esposito and
Deleuze: On the Possibility of a Minor Ethics.
Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario):
Biology and Philosophy: Esposito, Hegel and Bichat.
Diane Enns (McMaster University): Thinking
Community.
Session 6: FSS Room 1030 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
(Re)reading Calvino Today II
Organizer: Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (University of Guelph –
University of Waterloo)
Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider University): Poet as
Perseus: Calvino’s Cosmicomics and the Search for
Fresh Perspectives.
Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario): Poetiche
della leggerezza: Calvino e Palazzeschi a confronto.
Piero Garofalo (University of New Hampshire):
Calvino and Cinema.
Session 7: FSS Room 1006 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Perché autotradursi? I
14Friday, May 11 2018
Organizer: Arianna Dagnino (University of Ottawa – The
University of British Columbia)
Chair: Jan Marta (University of Toronto)
Francesca Pangallo (Università Ca’ Foscari
Venezia): Translating as other people’s trade: Primo
Levi’s take on literary translation.
Alice Martignoni (University of Toronto): The
archeology of silence: Giancarlo Consonni’s literary
translations of his vernacular poetry.
Cecilia Benaglia (McGill University): “Riposino in
pace i monovocaboli fissi!” Carlo Emilio Gadda fra
traduzione e autotraduzione.
Session 8: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance I –
Reality and Society
Organizers: Marco Piana (McGill University) and Elena
Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole Campus)
Chair: Marco Piana (McGill University)
Rebekah Compton (College of Charleston): Dressed
in White: Conflicting Ideals of Purity and Passion.
Angela Clarke (Italian Cultural Centre – Vancouver):
Ideal Brides: Beauty and Decorum for Middle Class
Wives on Deruta Bella Donna Plates (1500-1550).
Elena Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole
Campus): “Come sempre si è portata
virtuosissimamente in ogni sua operatione:” A
Renaissance Sienese Woman facing life duties and
difficulties.
15Friday, May 11 2018
1:00 – 2:30 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm: Guided visit to some of the Italian-
Canadian objects preserved in the national collection
of the Canadian Museum of History (registration
required) (information on page 35)
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Session 9: FSS Room 6004 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Contemporary Italian Philosophy, Literature and
Film III
Organizers: Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College
at University of Western Ontario) and Silvia Benso
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
Chair: Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at
University of Western Ontario)
Hanen Allouch (Université de Montréal): Et si la
biopolitique nous aidait à comprendre le monde
éducatif?
Mark Epstein (Independent Scholar): Pasolini the
Materialist: Are the ‘Sacred’ and the Past Related to
'Biopolitics’?
Session 10: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance
II – Art, Myth, and Imagination
Organizers: Marco Piana (McGill University) and Elena
Brizio (Georgetown University - Fiesole Campus)
Chair: Matteo Soranzo (McGill University)
16Friday, May 11 2018
David Salomoni (Università degli Studi di Roma
Tre): Warrior Women in Renaissance Italy: Between
Literature, Imagination and Reality (14th-16th
centuries).
Marco Piana (McGill University): Euhemerism and
Proto-Feminism in Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà
delle donne (1549).
Mathilde Legeay (Nantes University): Idealizing the
Ambiguous Female Hero: Judith’s Iconography in 17th-
Century Italian Paintings.
Session 11: FSS Room 1007 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Roundtable: Teaching in an International
Environment
Organizer: Hoang Truong (UCLA) and Tiziana Serafini
(University of Notre Dame)
Chair: Tiziana Serafini (University of Notre Dame)
Lucia Ducci (College of the Holy Cross)
Giuseppe Formato (Lesley University)
Tiziana Serafini (University of Notre Dame)
Session 12: FSS Room 1006 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Perché autotradursi? II
Organizer: Arianna Dagnino (University of Ottawa – The
University of British Columbia)
Chair: Piero Garofalo (University of New Hampshire)
Matilde Manara (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne
Nouvelle): Del residuo e del diamante. Gli Haiku for a
season di Andrea Zanzotto.
Rainier Grutman (University of Ottawa): Amara
Lakhous autotraduttore malgrado lui.
17Friday, May 11 2018
Arianna Dagnino (University of Ottawa – The
University of British Columbia): Transcultural
mediation, identity building, and rewriting in
Francesca Marciano’s self-translations.
Elisa Segnini (University of Glasgow): “Born
Translated” multilingual fiction: the Italian case.
Session 13: FSS Room 1030 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Utopian and Intentional Communities Past and
Present
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Rebecca Good (University of Ottawa)
Nino Rico (Independent Scholar): Utopia as allegory.
Bartolomeo Del Bene’s City of Truth.
Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa): Utopia
and possible worlds.
4:00 – 4:30 pm: COFFEE BREAK
18Friday, May 11 2018
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Keynote address: Room 2005 – Faculty of Social
Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Gabriele Dadati
Title: Antonio Canova e le donne di
Napoleone. Da Letizia Ramolino
a Paolina Borghese, da Giuseppina
Beauharnais a Maria Luisa
d'Austria.
Gabriele Dadati is a writer and
editor. He teaches creative writing and
contributes to various magazines. He
obtained a degree in Modern Philology from the University
of Pavia in 2006 with a thesis on the Panegirico ad Antonio
Canova by Pietro Giordani. He subsequently published it
with a preface by Fernando Mazzocca.
His book, Sorvegliato dai fantasmi (2006 and 2008), was
selected as a finalist for the Book of the year award by
Fahrenheit, a literary radio program broadcast in Italian on
Rai radio 3. In 2009, he represented Italy in the project
“Scritture Giovani di Festivaletteratura” in Mantova. In the
same year, he published Il libro nero del mondo, followed in
2012 by Piccolo testamento, which was presented at
Premio Strega. His latest book, L’ultima notte di Antonio
Canova, was published in 2018 by Baldini & Castoldi.
Gabriele Dadati is an alumnus of the Collegio Ghislieri and
of the Scuola Universitaria Superiore in Pavia.
19Saturday, May 12 2018
SATURDAY, MAY 12 2018
Registration 8:30 am – 12:00 pm; 1:30 – 5:00 pm
8:30 – 9:00 am: BREAKFAST
10:05 am: Tour of Parliament (information on page 35)
9:00 – 10:30 am
Session 14: FSS Room 4012 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Travel in Italy and Italians Travelling Abroad I
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary)
Silvia Corino Rovano (Università degli Studi di
Torino): Quando a spostarsi è una capitale intera. I
riscontri linguistici nei registri contabili del Piemonte
cinquecentesco.
Rosina Martucci (Università degli Studi di Salerno):
Il tema del viaggio nell’itinerario letterario di Pietro
Corsi.
Antonio Chiaese (Independent Scholar): “Under
Western Eyes”: Depicting the Ritual of Sati in Early
Modern Italian Travelogues of India.
Session 15: FSS Room 4014 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
PhD Theses in Progress: Ecological Critical
Approaches to Italian Literature and Film
Organizer: Benedetta Lamanna (University of Toronto)
Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)
20Saturday, May 12 2018
Nattapol Ruangsri (University of Toronto): Giorgio
Bassani’s Environmental Consciousness: From Early
Literary Works to Civil Writings (1930s-1980s).
Paolo Saporito (McGill University): Women, Rocks
and Waves: A Posthumanist Reading of the
Disappearance of the Female Body in Michelangelo
Antonioni’s L’avventura.
Valentina Pigini (University of Toronto): The Moon
as Nature’s Mirror: From Giacomo Leopardi to Italo
Calvino.
Session 16: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
La memoria letteraria nel Rinascimento
Organizer: CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES
Chair: Marco Piana (McGil University)
Damiano Acciarino (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
– University of Toronto): «che è occulto come in erba
l’angue» (If. VII, 84). Storia di un’immagine dantesca
dall’antichità al Rinascimento.
Raffaella Anconetani (Independent Scholar): Il
Teseida di Giovanni Boccaccio e l’Orlando furioso di
Ludovico Ariosto: memoria e intertestualità.
Session 17: FSS Room 1005 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Fin de siècle Female Action
Organizers: Sandra Parmegiani (University of Guelph)
and Cristina Caracchini (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Laura Ambrosio (University of Ottawa)
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (University of Guelph –
University of Waterloo): Una donna: Sibilla Aleramo’s
21Saturday, May 12 2018
Contribution to the Turn-of-the-Century Discourse on
Social Motherhood.
Francesca Facchi (University of Toronto): Le donne
poliziotto di Carolina Invernizio: ribellione di carta?
Cristina Caracchini (University of Western
Ontario): Reti di donne nel primo ’900.
10:30 – 11:00 am: COFFEE BREAK
22Saturday, May 12 2018
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Keynote address: FSS Room 1007 – Faculty of Social
Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Franco La Cecla
Title: Scrittura di viaggio: com'è
cambiata a seguito delle nuove
tecnologie.
Franco La Cecla is an anthropologist,
architect, writer, and movie director. He
taught Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Venice (IUAV), Milan (San
Raffaele), Paris (EHESS, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes), Barcelona (UPC), Berkeley
(Environmental Design), Lausanne and Lugano (SIUPSI).
He was a consultant for Renzo Piano and for the Barcelona
Regional Town Council. His research focuses on urban
daily life and material culture.
His many books have appeared in English, French and
Italian. Among them: Against Architecture (2011), The
Culture of Ethics (2013), Against Urbanism (2016), Je te
quitte, moi non plus (2009), Perdersi (2008), Il punto G
dell’uomo (2010) and Indian Kiss, Bollywood e Mumbai
(2013).
His documentary “In Another Sea” won the Best Coastal
Culture Film award at the San Francisco Ocean Film
Festival in 2010. He directed and interpreted two plays –
Lasciami. Ignoranza dei congedi and Il nonno del sarto
indiano – and curated the exhibit Praying, a Human
Practice (Turin, Venaria Reale, 2015).
23Saturday, May 12 2018
12:15 – 2:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Session 18: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance III –
Theatre and the Ideal
Organizers: Marco Piana (McGill University) and Elena
Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole Campus)
Chair: Benedetta Lamanna (University of Toronto)
Respondent: Sarah Rolfe Prodan (University of
Toronto)
Houman Mahrabian (University of Waterloo):
Resistance in Rome: Women in Coriolanus and Julius
Caesar.
Laura Martell (Duke University): Performing Ideal
Womanhood On and Off the Early Modern Stage.
Session 19: FSS Room 4014 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Italian Studies in the Digital Age
Organizers: Isabella Magni (Newberry Library) and
Andrea Penso (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Andrea Penso (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Eleonora Lima (University of Toronto): Too Many
Plots and Not Even One Story: Working on the Digital
Edition of Calvino’s L’incendio della casa
abominevole.
Isabella Magni (Newberry Library): Understanding
Cultures through Primary Sources: The Italian
Paleography Website.
24Saturday, May 12 2018
Lina N. Insana (University of Pittsburgh), Zachary
Enick (University of Pittsburgh), Eliza Jermyn
(University of Pittsburgh), Rita Keil (University of
Pittsburgh): Visualizing the Archive: Digital
Approaches to Pittsburgh's 'Lega Toscana’.
Session 20: FSS Room 1005 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
The Concept of Resistance in Italy:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives I
Organizers: Maria Laura Mosco (University of Western
Ontario) and Pietro Pirani (University of Western
Ontario)
Chair: Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario)
Daria Valentini (Stonehill College): Women and
Resistance in the Works of Beppe Fenoglio.
Daniele Biffanti (Stanford University): Partisans as
Veterans: the Rejection of a Mythologized Resistance
in Fenoglio’s La Paga del Sabato.
Andrea Capra (Stanford University): Milton, the
Forest Rebel.
Session 21: FSS Room 4012 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Travel in Italy and Italians Travelling Abroad II
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Nattapol Ruangsri (University of Toronto)
Ariana Loredana Tullio (University of Ottawa):
Borgotaro via Kefalonia: The Journey of Giuseppe
Capitelli.
Rosario Pollicino (University of Western Ontario):
Italian Days Arabian nights: Continuous Displacement
in Vittorio Palumbo’s memoir.
25Saturday, May 12 2018
Alessia Martini (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill): Fascination & Alienation: The Twofold
Representation of New York as Ideal Futurist/Infernal
City in Fortunato Depero’s Travel Narrative.
Maria Vittoria Novati (Istituto Vendramin-Correr,
Venezia): “Viaggio in Italia” di Guido Piovene. Ritratto
della nuova Italia.
3:30 – 4:00 pm: COFFEE BREAK
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Session 22: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance IV –
Literature and Models of Femininity
Organizers: Marco Piana (McGill University) and Elena
Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole Campus)
Chair: Elena Brizio (Georgetown University – Fiesole
Campus)
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (University of Toronto): Female
Exemplarity, Identity and Devotion in Lucrezia
Marinella’s Rime Sacre (1603).
Francesca Behr (University of Houston): Between
Philosophy, Religion and the Praise of Women:
Lucrezia Marinella’s Erina.
Benedetta Lamanna (University of Toronto): ‘Bad’
Girls Gone ‘Good’, or Veronica Franco’s Tactics of
Gendered (Re)presentations.
Session 23: FSS Room 4012 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Dalle “compagnesse” alle avventuriere
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
26Saturday, May 12 2018
Chair: Helga Paschetto (University of Ottawa)
Paula Clarke (McGill University): Le compagnesse di
Venezia: emarginazione sociale delle donne.
Edoardo Giuffrida (Archivio di Stato di Venezia):
Stefania Turr tra femminismo e protagonismo alla
Mata Hari.
Session 24: FSS Room 1005 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
The Concept of Resistance in Italy:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives II
Organizers: Maria Laura Mosco (University of Western
Ontario) and Pietro Pirani (University of Western
Ontario)
Chair: Cristina Caracchini (University of Western
Ontario)
Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard (University of Ottawa):
Resistance and the Faux Naïf: The Figure of the Young
Boy in Calvino, Gary and Guareschi.
Andrea Privitera (University of Western Ontario –
University of Padova): Marzo 1944: The Italian
Resistance and Minor Theatre.
Sandra Parmegiani (University of Guelph):
Resistance as Private Obsession and Public Defiance in
Claudio Magris’s Non luogo a procedere.
Session 25: FSS Room 4014 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Roundtable: Teaching second languages in a
blended classroom
Organizer: Laura Ambrosio (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Isabella Magni (Newberry Library)
Laura Ambrosio (University of Ottawa)
27Saturday, May 12 2018
Martine Rhéaume (University of Ottawa)
Miriam Hatabi (University of Ottawa)
Catherine Mongrain (University of Ottawa)
6:30 pm: Cocktails (optional, cash bar)
7:00 pm: Gala dinner, Industria Brasserie
Landsdowne, 225 Marché Way, Unit 107, Ottawa K1S 5H6
Phone number: +1 (613) 695-1200
Website: http://industriapizzeria.com
28Sunday, May 13 2018
SUNDAY, MAY 13 2018
Registration 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
8:30 – 9:00 am: BREAKFAST
9:00 – 10:30 am
Session 26: FSS Room 4014 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Italians in the Mediterranean and the
Mediterranean in Italy I
Organizer: Rosario Pollicino (University of Western
Ontario)
Chair: Rosario Pollicino (University of Western Ontario)
Luca Cottini (Villanova University): Forgotten
Islands: Italy and the Islands of Greece.
Jan Marta (University of Toronto): The WWII Italian
Campaign in Greece through the Prism of the Film
Mediterraneo (1990): Hostilities and Reversals;
Memories and Re-interpretations.
Sergio Portelli (Universityof Malta): Italian-
Language literary activism as an expression of Italian
cultural identity in the Nationalist fight for self-
determination in Malta (1900-1940).
Session 27: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Intersectional Feminism in Italy
Organizer: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (University of
Guelph – University of Waterloo) and Alessia Ursella
(University of Guelph)
29Sunday, May 13 2018
Chair: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (University of Guelph –
University of Waterloo)
Elisa Walker (University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland):
The Migrant and Post-colonial Coming-of-age Novel in
Contemporary Italian Literature.
Giovanni Scarola (University of Toronto): Women in
School and Academia in Post-Unification Italy: A
Perfect Example of Structured Discrimination.
Helga Paschetto (University of Ottawa): Tra
migrazione e malattia: la voce di Helen Barolini.
Session 28: FSS Room 1005 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Vices, Virtues, and the Senses in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance I
Organizers: Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary)
and Giulia Cardillo (James Madison University)
Chair: Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary)
Marcello Sabbatino (Università degli Studi di Pisa):
Le virtù cavalleresche nel “Teseida delle nozze
d’Emilia”.
Giulia Cardillo (James Madison University): The Bite
of Envy: Dante’s Representation of Envy in Purgatorio.
Elisa Treccani (Università di Verona): Perdition and
Redemption of a Comic Poet: Pieraccio Tedaldi’s
Canzoniere.
Session 29: FSS Room 4012 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Critical Studies on Italian Popular Culture and
Literature
Organizer: CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN
STUDIES
30Sunday, May 13 2018
Chair: Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano (York University)
Francesco Guardiani (University of Toronto): F.
Mastriani 1819-1891. Un (altro) grande assente nel
canone De Sanctis.
Paolo Matteucci (Dalhousie University):
(De)Fragmenting Canada. 70 Years of Canada in
Italian musica leggera, 1957-2017.
Caterina Ferrini (Università per Stranieri di Siena):
Modelli di misurazione semiotica: il caso del vino
italiano nel mondo.
10:30 – 11:00 am: COFFEE BREAK
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Annual General Meeting: FSS Room 1007 – Faculty
of Social Sciences Building (FSS) 120 University Private
12:30 – 2:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Session 30: FSS Room 4014 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Italians in the Mediterranean and the
Mediterranean in Italy II
Organizer: Rosario Pollicino (University of Western
Ontario)
Chair: Jan Marta (University of Toronto)
Mohamed Baya (University of Western Ontario):
Italy and the Maghreb: Italo-Maghrebi Mediterranean
Sea(s).
31Sunday, May 13 2018
Stefania Licata (Converse College): Migration and
Art in the Mediterranean: the Case of Kikoko.
Anna Makolkin (University of Toronto):
Transplanting Italy onto the Shores of the Black Sea:
Odessa’s Italian History.
Session 31: FSS Room 4012 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Figures of Women in Twentieth Century Cinema
and Literature
Organizer: CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES
Chair: Paolo Matteucci (Dalhousie University)
Luca Somigli (University of Toronto): Lo spazio
dell’adulterio: intérieurs, identità e genere
in L’esclusa di Pirandello.
Giuliana Sanguinetti Katz (University of Toronto
Mississauga): Come tu mi vuoi di Pirandello e Va
savoir di Rivette.
Faye McIntyre (University of Manitoba): Giulietta
Masina’s Performance in Federico Fellini’s Le notti di
Cabiria.
Roberta Sinyor (York University): From Analog to
Virtual: The Transformation of Heroines in Carmen
Covito’s “La Bruttina stagionata” and “Benvenuti in
questo ambiente”.
Session 32: FSS Room 1005 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Vices, Virtues, and the Senses in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance II
Organizers: Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary)
and Giulia Cardillo (James Madison University)
Chair: Giulia Cardillo (James Madison University)
32Sunday, May 13 2018
Aniello di Iorio (University of Wisconsin, Madison):
Paradiso XXIV-XXV and Dante’s Quest for Future
Glory: Interweaving Human Senses Between the Ars
Memorativa and the Theological Virtues of Faith and
Hope.
Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary): Love
Hope and Memory in Pier delle Vigne.
Session 33: FSS Room 6032 – Faculty of Social Sciences
Building (FSS) 120 University Private
Travel in Italy and Italians Travelling Abroad III
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Franco La Cecla (Independent Scholar)
Mariagrazia Lolla (Harvard University): From the
Pole to the Equator: Viewing Emilio Salgari’s Fiction
through a Posthuman Lens.
Julianne Van Wagenen (University of Southern
California): Le isole non trovate of Hugo Pratt and
Francesco Guccini.
Elena Benelli (Concordia University): Italian Cinema
and Migrations: the Work of Andrea Segre.
3:30 – 4:00 pm: COFFEE BREAK
33TOURS
INFORMATION ABOUT THE GUIDED TOURS
TULIP TOUR
FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018 (10:00 – 10:30 am)
A guide welcomes your group to tour the Royal Gift Tulip Bed, the
Tulip Legacy Plaza and provides an overview of our Canadian
tulip heritage, as well as, our Tulip Legacy Story. Explore the tulip
gardens and enjoy the vibrant surroundings. Includes a 2018
Canadian Tulip Festival souvenir and 20% off voucher for the
boutique. Motor coaches disembark at a meet and greet tent on
Carling Ave near the pavilion.
The tour will be $3 per person. Register to indicate your interest
in participating and payment will be collected at a later date.
Find out more about the Tulip Festival here:
http://www.tulipfestival.ca
TOUR OF CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HISTORY
FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018 (2:00 pm)
Join us for a tour of the Canadian Museum of History.
Located on the banks of the Ottawa River — with a stunning view
of Parliament Hill, the National Gallery of Canada, and downtown
Ottawa — the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the
Canadian Museum of Civilization) provides detailed insight into
20,000 years of human history. This tour is for 15 people.
TOUR OF PARLIAMENT (CENTRAL BLOCK)
SATURDAY, 12 MAY 2018 (10:05 am)
A free tour of Parliament. This tour is about 20-50 minutes,
depending upon parliamentary activity.
This tour is for 10 people.
34OFFICERS
OFFICERS OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR
ITALIAN STUDIES
Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, President
Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario,
Vice-President
Mary Watt, University of Florida, Secretary
Violetta Sutton, Brock University, Treasurer
Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, Editor Quaderni
d’Italianistica
Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph, Past
President
Benedetta Lamanna, University of Toronto, Graduate
Student Representative
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